Patrol: Prescription drug seizures increase for year

50K pills seized in first six months

5:20 AM,
Jul. 27, 2013

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Prescription drug seizures have increased the number of drug arrests on Ohio's state routes and interstates this year, even as troopers find smaller stashes of marijuana, heroin and cocaine.

Troopers seized 50,832 prescription pills in the first half of 2013, a 53.1 percent increase from the same time last year, according to Ohio Highway Patrol statistics. That number was bolstered by the largest seizure of prescription pills in Ohio Highway Patrol history: 17,260 doses taken from a Michigan man's car last month on Interstate 75.